Frisch, Mathias (2007) Does a Low-Entropy Constraint Prevent Us from Influencing the Past? UNSPECIFIED.
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David Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept of causal influence or control is grounded in the statistical mechanical assumption of a low-entropy past. In this paper I critically examine Albert's and Loewer's accounts.
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| Keywords: | Causation, Time, Thermodynamics, Past-Hypothesis | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Depositing User: | Mathias Frisch | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2007 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:15 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 3390 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Date: | June 2007 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3390 |
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